Lab_3

1. Describe Jan Chipchase's prior job (he now works at frog design [] ) in relation to his work at Nokia. What are the two names he is given in the article? (3 paragraphs)

 Jan Chipchase was called a "human-behaviour researcher" when he worked at Nokia. He researched the different needs and wants of cell phone users all around the world, focusing mainly on developing countries where the market scope was huge. His research led to investigating and learning about various personal belongings, family relationships, personal and social behaviour and linking all of it to how the user makes use of his cell phone. He was also called "user anthropologist" due to his nature of work which led him to learning and researching on the user itself and to bring out studies regarding them and how it could be used at Nokia.   Chipchase travelled around the world to different cities and countries and experienced and studied various cultures and based on his study helped Nokia to create cellphone on the criteria users were interested in. He ran various surveys and questioning people on what kind of cellphone they would like and spoke to them of general ideas and aspects of life which in itself could be helpful as today cellphones have also become a tool in facilitating life. He discovered various ideas like “sente” money transferring tools and proximate literacy tools which could help people with transferring money easily to family and friends and help increase literacy with the help of dictionaries of their language and other languages, this could also help communication if enabled in their cell phones. He send back all this information to Nokia in order to help them make new phones pertaining to their requirements in different countries and cities.

After Nokia Chipchase started working for Frog Design and his focus of study now shifted to studying the environments these people live in and he has taken all the information that he gathers and is now designing life changing cellphones which inspire designers. These cell phones are based on the environment people live in and what are their needs in such environments. For example mobile banking etc. This helps makes ones life easier in their respective places.

  Both jobs being almost the same and pertaining to the same market, but now Chipchase works more effectively with his information and research.

2. “It’s really quite striking,” Hammond says. “What people are voting for with their pocketbooks, as soon as they have more money and even before their basic needs are met, is telecommunications.” (World Resources Institute) In the spirit of this quote, describe four instances of how owning a cellphone enables users to better their lives. (4 paragraphs/ one for each instance)

Emergency Cell Phones today could be life saving in events of any emergency taking placing, if stranded somewhere one could call there people and ask for help, the police, ambulance, fire department and all other life saving services are rigth at your finger tips so much so that even cars now days have their own cell phone technology so that they can contact their respective companies in the even of a breakdown or accident. This proves it to be handy an many times life saving.

Efficient Communication Obviously the most important job of a cell phone. The art of communicate from where ever you are to where ever you want, in the touch of a few buttons and a few cents one can contact anyone around the world today from where ever they are. No need of emails, letters, or travelling just a cell phone can help you set up meeting, or even making purchases and sales.

Identity Today cell phones have proved to be ones identity. Everywhere you go any form you fill they would ask you for a cellphone number in order to identify yourself. A person cell phone number and his preferences of digits and personalized handsets and the things you could modify in or on the handset has just created a new form of identity through which a person can be recognized.

Organization Today the persons cell phone is their alarm clock, their calender, their document reader, their email device, their camera and video, their games device, their contacts book, their socializing device etc. So many features in a cell phone have made the human just dependable on his cell phone alone. It could contain his entire life in one small machine. This kind of accessibility and ease has enabled a person to organize his life through one device.

Personally cell phone is an important device for me without which I would be incomplete and these were just a few of the uses today cell phones have reached a new era of development and there is no stopping the limits.